The Italian shot a bogey-free round of 69 to emerge from a star-studded leaderboard to win the Claret Jug at Carnoustie

By the time Tiger Woods arrived at each hole Sunday, many of the fans pressed against the ropes had been waiting in their spots for well over an hour. They were there to secure a glimpse of the man who would win the British Open, a man whose triumph they scarcely could have imagined mere months ago. And they did. It was Woods’s playing partner.